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15-year-old girl fights back against four attackers in Manchester, chief says

By TED CZECH

Daily Record/Sunday News

Updated:
04/11/2013 07:42:52 AM EDT

A 15-year-old girl fought back when four males began grabbing her on a Manchester street as she walked home from school Tuesday afternoon, according to Northeastern Regional Police Chief Bryan Rizzo.

"She stomped on one of their feet and kicked another in the crotch," said Rizzo on Wednesday, calling the girl's actions "brave."

Rizzo characterized the broad-daylight alleged assault as very unusual and brazen for the borough.

Police said at 3 p.m., the girl was walking in the 100 block of Maple Street when the four males confronted her near the rear of a convenience store.

The males started calling the girl derogatory names, and then grabbed her by the arms, pulled her shirt down and touched her, the news release states.

Once the girl fought back, the males ran away on nearby South Main Street, and the girl ran in the opposite direction, Rizzo said.

"She had a red mark on her; she seemed very upset," when talking with a detective, Rizzo said.

He added that the girl did not recognize any of her attackers, but provided very detailed descriptions of them.

After initial reports of the assault, a woman called police Wednesday to tell them that although she did not witness what happened, she saw the four males in the area close to the time it is alleged to have occurred, Rizzo said.

Police described the first male as 5-feet-10-inches tall, wearing a yellow T-shirt, tan pants, blue, gray and black sneakers, with brown eyes, brown hair and a brown goatee.

Police said the third male was 6-feet tall, wearing an orange-and-white button-down shirt, blue jeans, black shoes, with brown hair and a patch of hair on his chin.

The fourth male was described as 6-feet tall, wearing a "Disturbed" T-shirt, blue jeans, and blue-and-gray sneakers, with green-blue eyes, brown hair and a mustache.

All of the males were white, and in their late teens-to-early 20s, the news release states.

The assault comes less than a week after West York Borough Police arrested a West York man in connection with trying to lure a child into a motor vehicle, according to charging documents.

Julio Flores Jr., 43, of the 1100 block of West King Street, faces charges of luring a child into a motor vehicle charge, one count of possession of a small amount of marijuana and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

On Saturday, officers found a mattress, latex gloves, candy and marijuana inside a van belonging to a man they arrested Saturday for trying to lure a child into a motor vehicle, according to charging documents.

As of Wednesday, Flores remained in York County Prison on $100,000 bail.

To help

Anyone with information about the alleged assault is asked to call police at 717-266-6195 or 911.